Steven Stosny gets it. His take on resolving marriage battles changes everything, whether your marriage is abusive or just stressed out. In Dr. Stosny’s November 30th blog post, he looked at our two options for dealing with this pair of competing thoughts (cognitive dissonance), so common for us married folks: “I am a loving and compassionate person. Yet I am not loving and...
If you’re engaged and waiting until you can afford a wedding, take this idea to the prettiest church you know. In today’s news, beautiful Espoo Cathedral, in Finland, has scheduled Friday night of the Valentine’s Day weekend as a “wedding night.” They will open the church to perform up to 100 weddings at no charge. Anyone with the Finnish equivalent of our marriage...
Want to know what I really like about this advice I give you and usually follow myself, to Assume Love? It leads to some really amazing discoveries. The one I write about in today’s My Husband Made Me Eat It column at Second Helping Online is that the failure to compliment can be a great way to show love.
Are you making any great discoveries like this from assuming love in your own marriage?
Yahoo! put it in their odd news category today, but I think it’s clever. A state can end up spending a lot of money on food and social services when a marriage fails. So why not offer second honeymoons to struggling couples, if marriage counseling suggests it will help? That’s what the state of Terengganu (that’s in Malaysia, between Singapore and Cambodia) is doing. The two...
Double bad luck: people who have cancer as children are less likely to marry than those who don’t. Around 70% of Americans marry by the time they are 30 years old. But not childhood cancer survivors. Only half of them do, according to a large follow-up study reported today. Why not? Short stature, poor physical functioning, and cognitive problems are the factors more common among the people...
